Attack on Iran in June 2005
Attack on Iran in June 2005LaRouche
Warned:
Bush-Cheney
Re-Election Means Perpetual War
At
a conference in Dubai, on Jan. 5-6, Patrick Clawson, speaking on behalf of the
Bush-Cheney Administration, announced that Washington is hell-bent on taking out
Iran’s “nuclear weapons sites.” Clawson, the vice president of the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), and a leading Beltway
neo-con, was part of an American delegation to a conference sponsored by the
Gulf Research Center.
One
Arab participant in the event told this news service: “It was not a
conference. It was a notification by the Bush people, of their intentions to
attack Iran.” The source continued, “There were several scenarios for the
attack, from a military strike to a political destabilization.” While
Clawson’s claim to be speaking for the Bush Administration may have contained
more than a little hubris, the fact is, in a television interview with Don Imus
just hours before the Bush-Cheney Inauguration on Jan. 20, Vice President Dick
Cheney made similar threats of military action against Iran, going so far as to
cite Israel’s bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981, with a warning: If
Iran’s quest for a nuclear weapon is not stopped by Washington and Europe,
Israel will strike unilaterally and let the rest of the world sort out the mess.
Washington sources confirm that a battle royal is
raging behind the scenes within the intelligence community, over the Bush
Administration’s zeal to bomb Iran and, as some neo-cons fantasize, trigger a
“velvet revolution” by Gap-Jeans-clad, Internet-savvy Iranian youth.
Even with Cheney stooge Porter Goss installed as the Director, Central
Intelligence Agency analysts insist that the United States does not have the
ability to take out Iran’s purported nuclear weapons program; and a failed
bombing and commando attack would trigger a deep anti-American backlash among
all sectors of the Iranian population, strengthen the hand of the hard-line
clerics, and dash any prospects of a diplomatic solution, through Euro-Russian
negotiations, which have already led to a six-to-nine-month freeze in
reprocessing of nuclear material.
LaRouche
Was Right
Throughout
the 2004 election campaign, Lyndon LaRouche, while campaigning for the
Democratic Party Presidential nomination, and later, while backing the
Kerry-Edwards ticket, warned that, were Bush-Cheney to be reelected, they would
unleash perpetual warfare across Eurasia. Now, Bush and Cheney’s own words
have proven that LaRouche was absolutely right. Every statement coming out of
Team Bush since the beginning of the year has been a call to war—just as
LaRouche warned.
As
LaRouche stated on Jan. 25: “The key on this thing, is the fact that I
forecast this entire scenario. That if Bush were reelected, they would proceed
immediately with the attacks on Iran and similar targets. And this ‘outpost of
tyranny’ thing is exactly that, it is a restatement, out of the mouth of
Condoleezza Rice [at her confirmation hearings], of exactly the policy.... The
report from Dubai is really the same story Seymour Hersh had. And now people are
getting it, and they are saying: ‘Is it true?’ Of course it’s true! They
intend to do it.” LaRouche added one more crucial dimension: “But also, the
point is, the essential thing is that the President of the United States is a
psychotic. And his mental condition
is not improving, but quite the contrary. And circumstances help to make things
worse, because he has more to pretend. And
he’s now so far out in the world of pretend, that he has no contact with
reality. So therefore he’s flailing out there in the world of pretend where he
has, really, no opposing voices.”
Hersh
Revelations Confirmed
Clawson’s
appearance in Dubai, and Cheney’s blustering comments to Imus, add further
weight to the expose by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker magazine of Jan. 28,
which identified Iran’s nuclear program as “target number one” of the
Bush-Cheney second term. Hersh warned that the
Bush Administration would consider bombing attacks and clandestine commando
operations, targetting as many as three dozen nuclear and chemical weapons sites
inside Iran—as early as Summer 2005.
Sources on the ground in Southwest Asia have confirmed other details of
the evolving war plans against Iran (see International). According to one
Egyptian source, Israeli commandos are operating extensively in the Kurdish
region of northern Iraq, and have been linking up with guerrillas from the
Mujahideen el Khalq (MEK), the formerly Iraq-sponsored Iranian exile group,
which is on the U.S. State Department’s list of International Terrorist
Organizations.
Leading
neo-cons, including self-professed “universal fascist” Michael Ledeen, have
been promoting the idea that the MEK should be removed from the State Department
list and drafted, instead, as an American-backed insurgent force, deployed to
destabilize the Iranian government.
New,
Damning Revelations
In
the intervening days since the publication of the Seymour Hersh exposé, scores
of articles have appeared in newspapers around the United States, exposing other
dirty secrets of the Bush-Cheney Administration, particularly the secret
Pentagon spy units, which are operating outside the framework of Congressional
oversight—under the supervision of Straussian Stephen Cambone, the
Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, and his bonkers military deputy, Gen.
William Boykin, a self-professed fundamentalist Armageddonist, who views the war
on terror as a new holy crusade against Islam. One prominent retired
military officer warned that U.S. military intelligence teams, under Cambone and
Boykin, are operating on U.S. soil and are targetting American citizens. He
warned that the United States, under Bush and Cheney, have entered a slippery
slope which leads inevitably to the kinds of clandestine
assassinations that the British Special Air Services (SAS) carried out
against alleged Irish Republican Army “terrorists,” which Israel has
routinely carried out against Palestinian “militants,” and which the French
carried out in the 1950s in the “dirty war” in Algeria.
As the result of the flurry of revelations, a number of Congressional
committees are planning to hold hearings on the Rumsfeld reorganization, and
some of the allegations in the Hersh article.
This, in turn, has produced an hysterical reaction from at least one
neo-con voice, former Bush speechwriter David Frum, the man who coined the term
“axis of evil.”
Writing
in the Jan. 17 National Review Online, Frum went ballistic over the pattern of
leaks from within the U.S. national security establishment, to expose the
Bush-Cheney Administration’s spitting on the Constitution:
“Read
Seymour Hersh’s latest piece in The New Yorker with a yellow marker in
hand,” he fumed. “Can you count how many vital national security
secrets—secrets that could potentially get U.S. personnel killed—have been
betrayed in just this one article by serving and former agents of the Central
Intelligence Agency or by serving or senior and former military officers?”
Frum moaned that, “the fact is that considerable elements of the national
security apparatus have gone into open mutiny against this war. If the only way
to stop it is to drive the country to defeat, then they will welcome—indeed
hasten—that defeat.... The saboteurs do not believe that the Administration
will take serious action against them. It’s
long past time to correct that misapprehension.” The reality is that Frum is,
in part, correct. There are growing legions of patriotic Americans within the
institutions of government—the military, the diplomatic corps, the
intelligence community, the Congress—who have concluded that LaRouche was
right, when he warned of a new Thirty Years’ War if Bush and Cheney were
reelected, or allowed to get away with stealing the November 2004 election. Now
that Bush and Cheney have been inaugurated, and have confirmed their intentions
to launch perpetual war, starting in Iran, but extending from Syria to North
Korea, to the Caucasus, to the Great Lakes region of Africa, a concert of action
is required. Richard Nixon won a far more serious mandate in 1972, but just 18
months later, his Presidency was finished, because his Watergate crimes—minor
by comparison to Bush and Cheney—were exposed.
The
First Scalp
Against
the backdrop of accelerating patriotic resistance to the Bush-Cheney madness,
one leading Pentagon neo-con bit the dust on Jan. 26. A
brief Defense Department press release announced the departure of Undersecretary
of Defense for Policy, Douglas Feith. Feith’s office has been the
epicenter of neo-con subversion, including the
Office of Special Plans unit which was a major propaganda/disinformation
unit, feeding wild lies directly to the Office of Vice President Cheney in the
run-up to the Iraq invasion. At least three Feith aides
have been identified as targets of espionage probes by the FBI, including
Larry Franklin, the Iran desk officer at the Pentagon’s Near East South Asia (NESA)
policy shop, who is suspected of feeding classified
information to Israel via the official Israeli lobby, the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Feith, a second-generation Jabotinskyite, was a co-author,
with Richard Perle, David Wurmser, Meyrav Wurmser, and others, of the “Clean
Break” study, delivered to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in July
1996. That document spelled out, in precise detail, the “regime change”
agenda against Iraq, Syria, Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, which Cheney and
company are now accelerating, with their talk of the Iran bombing plans.
Even as news was beginning to circulate about Pinochet's condition, the Bush-Cheney gang were proceeding ahead, at breakneck speed, to push their own ``Chilean Model''--in Washington, D.C. Not only did Treasury Secretary John Snow-job and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card made the rounds of the Sunday talking head shows, lying their heads off about the urgent need to privatize Social Security ``to save the system'' from otherwise unavoidable deep cuts in benefits. Over at the Rumsfeld Pentagon, the biggest Crusader-rabid of all, Gen. William ``Jerry'' Boykin, was paving the way for a new ``Operation Condor,'' to be run out of the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, a unit created by Rumsfeld, and headed by Straussian Stephen Cambone and Gen. Boykin, to run death squads all around the globe, ostensibly chasing down Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.
You remember Gen. Boykin. He is the Christian Zionist lunatic, who paraded around evangelical churches in full military regalia, ranting about a new Holy Crusade against Islam. These guys are every bit as fanatical as the ratline Nazis and Falangists who ran Pinochet's Operation Condor, hunting down and assassinating ``enemies of the regime'' all over South America, Europe and the United States.
True, George W. Bush is in a God-complex flight forward; and Rumsfeld is working at breakneck speed to get his hit squads up and running around the globe. But they are not going to get away with this without a very, very big fight. The Boykin global hit team story was plastered all over the front page of Sunday's New York Times, along with an accompanying expose of his Guantanamo Bay cohort, Gen. Geoffrey Miller. A few days ago, the Times also exposed the Pentagon's secret revival of plans to conduct black propaganda warfare--out of the offices of Jabotinskyite Doug Feith!
This week saw an upsurge of attacks on these bastards, with even Ole Miss cheerleader Trent Lott coming out swinging against Rumsfeld, along with Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and Senators John McCain, Chuck Hagel, and Richard Durbin. There is a bipartisan war stirring against the Bush insanity, and we have been, since the time of the November 2000 elections, the catalyst of this effort. Lyn has emerged, in the eyes of more and more leading Democrats and honest Republicans, as the commander-in-chief of this counter-coup effort. (The January 5th webcast audience should be built from this standpoint.)
Bush has made the mistake of racing flight-forward ahead on the Social Security privatization, at the very moment that we've got him caught, peddling the full array of Pinochet policies. Pinochet was the puppet of George Shultz and the international Mont Pelerin Society gang of fascists. And what is George Bush? Remember George Shultz's Vulcans? Bush is but one more Shultz tool, peddling the same Pinochet agenda, from the looting of workers' savings to the deployment of global death squads.
And then of course there is George Shultz's dream project: Arnold Schwarzenegger. Shultz has gotten so bold as to seek out a puppet with a genuine Nazi pedigree in his family, Arnie, to use in his California operation.
Is there any doubt that this whole Shultz effort is on very thin ice? We are in a position to destroy all of these operations at once, and that is exactly what we plan to do-- before Bush is even inaugurated at the end of January. If we do our job right-- with the right punch, with the proper volume of literature, and with sufficient logistics in depth--Bush is going to show up for his inauguration already a lame duck.